{"product_id":"the-roving-eye-a-reporters-love-affair-with-paris-politics-sport-paperback","title":"The Roving Eye: A Reporter's Love Affair with Paris, Politics \u0026 Sport - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Evans\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo. Be there. For the past six decades Richard Evans has followed that dictum \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e- being where the action was, not just as a tennis writer and broadcaster - 196 Grand Slams and counting - but through his years as a foreign correspondent in America, France and Vietnam as well as a spell as a roving global reporter for the US television programme Entertainment Tonight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvans, whose English family fled France in June 1940, also became a National Service Captain in the British army, without having to dodge a bullet which was not the case in Cambodia nor in Miami where he was struck by a cop during an anti-Nixon demonstration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvans was in Memphis hours after Martin Luther King was shot; campaigned through Indiana and California with Bobby Kennedy - \"a unique politician\" - before he, too, was assassinated and witnessed the pre-Olympic demonstrations in 1968 against the Mexican Government which ended in massacre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe accompanied the Wimbledon champion and activist Arthur Ashe on two trips to Africa, witnessing the dark days of apartheid and was back in South Africa in 1990 covering Mike Gatting's rebel cricket tour during the historic weeks that saw Nelson Mandela released and apartheid abolished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvans paints an insider's portrait of Margaret Thatcher and No 10 Downing Street during the time he was with the Prime Minister's daughter, Carol; a romance with the actress Gayle Hunnicutt and two marriages; friendships with Richard Harris, Michael Crawford and more Wimbledon champions than you could fit into the players' box. He was also the last person to interview Richard Burton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA life lived to the full, covering the globe with a Roving Eye - being there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 358\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 20, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49189970346136,"sku":"9781911525479","price":42.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/M0RETDhBQUJqSngwSndTM2lYQ1c1dz09.webp?v=1780476784","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobooks.myshopify.com\/products\/the-roving-eye-a-reporters-love-affair-with-paris-politics-sport-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}